Improvement in curry-combs



UNI'IED STA'IES PATENT FFIC'E GERVAIS NOLIN, OF WEST WATRVILLE, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURRY-COMBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. I 78,874, dated J une 20, 1876; application fi1ed May 13, 1876.

T0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GERVAIS NOLIN, of West Waterville, of the county of Kennebee and State of Maine, havenvented a new and useful Impr0vement in Curry-Oombs; and do hereby declare the same te be fully descrbed in the bllowing speeification and represented in the aee'ompanying drawings, ot' whieh- Fgme 1 is a top view, Fg. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 an end elevaton, Fig. 4 a longitudinal sectiou, and Fig. 5 a transverse section, of a curry-comb embraeing my invention.

In earryng out my improvement I provirle the series of the dentated plates of the implement with a series of elearers, allbeing substantially and to operate as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A A A are a seriesof dentated plates, eaeh being provded with teeth arranged on its opposite longer edges. These plates are disposed parallel to eael1 0ther, at equal distanees apart, and betwee n tw0 parallel bars, a a, connect ed by ro cls b b, which extend. 'r0m one of such bars to the other, aml through the dentated plates, these letter be ing seeurely 'astened to the said rods. From the middle of the lower bar a a shank, 0, is ex tended at right angles, and into a handle, B. Between the dentated plates A there is arranged, in manner as shown, a series of movable elearers, C 0 0, ea'ch being eomposed of two plates, d 01, eonnected by an elongated tube, e, Fig. 6 being a top view, and Fig. 7 a horzontal seetion, of one of said clearers.

I prefer t0 conneet all the elearers together by r0ds f f, going from one to the other, and through slots g g, made laterally in the intermediate dentated plates.

Where the rocls b b go through the elearers, they (the said clearers) are provided wth lateral slots h h, the whole beng to enable the elearers te move laterally either way between the dentated plates, in. order to elear their teeth of any aeeumulations of hair, (landrufl', er matter removed from the hide or skin of an animal during the process of eurryng the same.

With my improved eurry-comb a groom or hostler, after having used it, will have no need elearers being disposed between the dentated plates, and to o perate therewith essentially as explained.

2. Eaeh clearer C, as composed of the two elongated and slotted plat-es d- 01 and the 0011- neetion-tube e, arranged as represented.

3. The combination of the series of elearers 0 and ther eounection-rods f f, arranged as set forth.

GERVAIS NOLIN.

Witnesses:

LOUIS BELANGER A. A. NICKERSON. 

